Customer Reviews
Beautiful Film - By: Seth, 20 Aug 2008 
I absolutely love this film! It kept me glued to the screen for the entire film, something which not many films have done to me before. You come to love every single one of the characters, especiallly Forrest, because of his determination through the whole film.
This film is so many categories, you couldn't fit it into one. It made me both cry & laugh, lots! Though the things that happen with the film are very unlikely, the way it is set out makes it surpisingly believable!
It tells a great story, & even now, 14 years on from when it was released, this is an amazing film for alll kinds of people.
Cynical Right-Wing Propaganda - By: foxhay, 16 Jul 2008 
It always amazes me that there are so many positive reviews of this appallling film. On the surface it is idiotic, banal & cloyingly sentimental. At it's root it is a cynical piece of right-wing propaganda.
The basic message of the film is that if you are an idiot, if you conform & do not question authority or think for yourself you are a hero. If you challlenge the government, think for yourself & refuse to see the world in black & white you will be unhappy, exploited & die of AIDs.
The 'philosophy' behind this film is so mind blowingly stupid it is offensive. What gallls me even more is the way that music made by artists who would by no means have agreed with the politics expressed in this film have been used to sell it. The positive reviews it gets are a depressing example of just how easy it is to manipulate an audience into going along with something rotten to the core through the use of banal sentimentality.
forest gump dvd - By: azzmazz, 18 Mar 2008 I have watched this film before & I think it was one of the best films I have ever seen because the main character forest gump doesn't have to be some body he just acts like himself which is the thing I like most about the film.
Typical Hollywood self-indulgence - By: Mr. Graeme Phillips, 10 Mar 2008 
This is yet another tiresome, trite film where Hollywood smugly tells the whole world that it is ahead of the curve on social issues & that people in the Deep South are backward, ignorant & stupid. They made sure to make Forrest Gump much thicker than he is in the book & reallly played up the theme of race politics.
This film is indicative of Hollywood's hypocrisy when it comes to racism: - a film like this done about African Americans (I have to use politicallly correct terminology here) would be banned. However, few people see fit to criticise this film, as residents of the Deep South are considered fair game for racist criticism.
Given that I have Asperger's syndrome & my parents fought tooth & nail to keep me in the mainstream schooling system, just as Forrest's mother had to in the film, this film should have struck a raw nerve with me. However, the above negative points cancelled this out.
At first it is funny that Forrest is so incredibly thick (and I suppose it is some consolation that he isn't shown conforming to the stereotype of Southerners having backward attitudes to race politics), but after a while, his strange statements start to become tiresome.
If you are a San Franciscan liberal living in your own sad little world sipping lattes, nibbling tofu & driving a hybrid who enjoys smugly telling the world that San Francisco is ahead of the curve on social issues, you will be delighted by this film, as it will feed your own ego. Otherwise, you will merely find the message in this film trite.
Classic! - By: Scarlett, 12 Nov 2007 If you haven't watched this, you reallly do not know what you are missing out on. Yes, I know it's one of those good-feel movies with a soppy, unrealistic happy ending - but you'll love it anyway. Plus, it reminds you why Tom Hanks is one of the best actors of alll time.
